Very genteel, by the author of 'Mrs. Jerningham's journal'.Griffith & Farran, 1880 - 318 pages |
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... things ! ' " Deed then , Lettice , I think a pork chop an uncommonly fit thing about four o'clock in the day when I feel hungry . ' ' And it's nothing I have in the house to make a pudding or the shadow of a pudding , and no time to ...
... things ! ' " Deed then , Lettice , I think a pork chop an uncommonly fit thing about four o'clock in the day when I feel hungry . ' ' And it's nothing I have in the house to make a pudding or the shadow of a pudding , and no time to ...
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... thing entirely . I say it's extremely un- kind of you to ask the Donollys to dinner , when you knew we'd only pork chops in the house , and my black silk dress comes home to - morrow , and Mrs. Donolly always dressing so well ! ' ' And ...
... thing entirely . I say it's extremely un- kind of you to ask the Donollys to dinner , when you knew we'd only pork chops in the house , and my black silk dress comes home to - morrow , and Mrs. Donolly always dressing so well ! ' ' And ...
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... thing , ' called his wife after him as he went out of the house . ' Grant me patience ! ' Before the Donollys arrive , while Mr. Tippington is buying the dessert , and his wife preparing her dress for dinner , we will look back a few ...
... thing , ' called his wife after him as he went out of the house . ' Grant me patience ! ' Before the Donollys arrive , while Mr. Tippington is buying the dessert , and his wife preparing her dress for dinner , we will look back a few ...
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Elizabeth Anna Hart. things a sincere , humble Christian and a child of God . Such was Mr. Tippington's ideal . It is not perhaps very ... things that from his child- hood upwards he had been taught to consider as the 18 Very Genteel .
Elizabeth Anna Hart. things a sincere , humble Christian and a child of God . Such was Mr. Tippington's ideal . It is not perhaps very ... things that from his child- hood upwards he had been taught to consider as the 18 Very Genteel .
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... afterwards , trying first one thing and then another . But he always boasted of being a gentleman by birth , and was extremely particular about the e at the end of his name , -a particularity which his 20 Very Genteel .
... afterwards , trying first one thing and then another . But he always boasted of being a gentleman by birth , and was extremely particular about the e at the end of his name , -a particularity which his 20 Very Genteel .
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